Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

132-1-C-A-a040316
Item
[195-?]

A totem pole standing at UBC. This totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and was lated restored by Mungo Martin. It stood in Totem Park at UBC until it was moved into the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

Totem pole base, close up

92-1-a034478
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a frontal view of the base of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. A seated human figure is visible. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.

Totem pole behind a fence

94-a034819
Item
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a totem pole located in a valley with mountains in the distance. The pole is probably from the Kitwanga or Kispiox villages in the Skeena Valley. This pole features a fish on top and a series of ravens interspersed with human-like characters below that. One section of the pole is not carved.

Totem pole being secured in the Great Hall

132-1-C-C-a041592
Item
August 1975?

Part of MOA General Media collection

A worker on a ladder secures a totem pole that has recently been moved in the Museum of Anthropology's Great Hall.

Totem pole by Charlie James

132-1-C-A-a040342
Item
1950

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of a totem pole by Charlie James. This totem pole was originally completed in 1915, and was later restored by Mungo Martin. It stood in Totem Park at UBC until it was moved to the Great Hall in the Museum of Anthropology.

Totem pole carved by Mungo Martin in Totem Park

132-1-C-A-a040313
Item
[195-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Shows a totem pole carved by Mungo Martin standing in Totem Park at UBC.

Totem pole carving

92-1-a034543
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts an unidentified carver working on a totem pole.

Totem pole close up

94-a034841
Item
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a totem pole that features a human figure at the base and three other human figures, aligned horizontally across the pole. Other wooden structures can be seen in the background. Read's note indicates that a possible explanation for this pole can be found in Barbeau, p. 149, which suggests that the three humans carved in this pole may be Hrpugweelan, a crest of Ksemgitgeegyaenih, a Larhsail chief.

Totem pole detail

94-a034837
Item
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a close up showing the details of the lower figures on a totem pole, probably the Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole from the House of Chief Skogum Laxhe. The bottom figure is is the monster Hagwelawrh, who lives under the water and causes the Sand-Bar to raise with his back. See also image a034836 for another view of this pole.

Totem Pole in Alert Bay

Part of Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a totem with a building in the background and a boat in the foreground with low tide. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay.